Tag: Hebron
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Peace activists say beaten by settlers
Tal Rabinovsky | YNet News 18 November 2009 Two foreign peace activists say they were assaulted by settlers Tuesday in South Mount Hebron while accompanying a Palestinian family to the village of Tuba. One of the activists was reportedly kicked in the stomach and needed medical attention. The two women, who filed a complaint with…
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Baseball team urged to cut ties with Israeli group
Eli Clifton | IPS News 14 November 2009 A coalition of 11 U.S., Israeli and Palestinian groups are calling on the New York Mets baseball team to cancel a fundraiser by the “violent and racist” Israeli Hebron Fund which is scheduled to be held at the Mets’ stadium, Citi Field, on Nov. 21. The Hebron…
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Eleven organizations demand that Mets cancel Citi Field fundraiser for Israeli settlers
Adalah NY 4 November 2009 Eleven organizations from the US, Palestine and Israel have called on baseball’s New York Mets to cancel a November 21st dinner at the Caesars Club at Citi Field for the Brooklyn-based Hebron Fund. The dinner is a fundraiser for Israeli settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank City of Hebron. In…
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Israeli army set cars on fire close to the southern Green Line
13 October 2009 During the last week, the Israeli army patrolling the area close to the Green Line in the South Hebron Hills, started to destroy and burn cars they suspected belonged to Palestinians trying to travel inside Israel for work without permit. On the 12 and 13 October, activists from different groups documented seven…
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Bedouin community declared ‘closed military area’ while residents attempted to build new poultry-house
13 October 2009 On Tuesday, 13 October 2009, Israeli soldiers and police prevented the residents of Umm al-Kheir, located in the South Hebron Hills, from finishing the construction of a new chicken house. The families are not allowed by the army to build houses and are therefore living in tents that are located just outside…